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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: james_decker2009 <james_decker2009@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: private_jamesdecker@myway.com
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:41:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CAN YOU TAKE CARE OF THIS MATTER ON TRUST?


FROM Mr.JAMES DECKER.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK,(ADB)
Lome-Republic of Togo.

Dear Friend

I solicit for your consent to use this medium to communicate with you right now.
Inview of the prevailing circumstances, I’m left with little or no choice(s) than to invade your privacy soliciting for your assistance in reclaming the sum of Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars( US$18.5M ) from the Coffers of THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK [ADB] in Lome-Togo.

I have the courage to ask for your assistance to handle this important and confidential business believing that you will not betray the confidence I repose on you now.

I am JAMES DECKER, the Director for Accounts & Audit Department for THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK [ADB] RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT projects in the REPUBLIC of TOGO.

Be informed that there is a huge fund left in the DORMANT VAULTS of this bank since 2002 and nobody has put forward an application seeking for its release. After going through some old files as contained in the bank records, I discovered that if this huge fund is not urgently transferred outside the shores of this country, it may be forfeited owing to negligence.
The owner of this contract money is Mr. John B. Andrews, a Geologist by profession and a miner at ASHANTI GOLDFIELDS CO., and he died since 2003 in a ghastly plane crash. Please, see the link below for details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3348109.stm
For your information, no other person knows about this money or any thing concerning it because, the said client was a foreigner who had no immediate relatives in this country.
Moreover, there is no beneficiary of this fund in the absence of the said Mr. John B. Andrews's demise as contained in the bank records and my investigation right now has proven to me as well that his company does not know anything about this money as I gathered that the late Mr. John B. Andrews had this fund deposited privately without the knowledge of a third party inview of his work status as an employee of THE ASHANTI GOLDFIELDS CO.

With your participation, I intend to transfer this fund which is up to the tune of (US$18.5M) from this country into safe foreign bank account(s). I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign bank account because the money is in United States Dollars and the depositor of this fund was a foreigner as well. You’ll assume the status of an immediate relative of the late client or a business colleague/partner so that the proceeds of this fund can be released into your nominated bank account(s) for our mutual benefit.

I know that this message may come to you as a surprise as we have not known our selves beforehand,but be rest assured that it is just destiny that brought us together inline with the will of God.

I got your contact details through your country international member directory by your contact informations via the search engines and I decided to contact you believing God that you are a reliable and God fearing fellow with whom I can conclude this claim succesfully.
You are the only person that I have contacted over this business so please, kindly reply urgently so that I will inform you of the next step to take to ensure maximum success in this fund claim for our collective gain.

I hereby wish to present you to this claim as the next of kin inorder to avoid such negative circumstances .So,upon your positive response to this covenant, i will give you more guildlines to the release and transfer of this fund to your choosen bank account,which will include the sharing paterns with all other required legal financial modalities to the repartriation of this fund.

Kndly send your quick response through my alternative email address;
I am waiting for your immediate and positive response to this call.
Upon receipt of your acceptance letter soon, we shall commence in earnest towards the succesful actualization of this fund claim.

I look roward to hearing from you soon.
Thanks and best regards.

Sincerely yours,
Mr. James Decker


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